Death on Demand: Cautionary Tales from Canada Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying program, once reserved for the terminally ill, is increasingly attracting applicants experiencing poverty and depression. Margaret Wente 1 Feb 2023 · 15 min read
The Educational Ship Comes to a Shuddering Halt School closings put strain on families and students alike. Jenny Griebenow 23 Jan 2023 · 11 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 9 min read
The Months the Earth Stood Still Did humanity defeat a potentially devastating plague with relatively modest losses, or did the greater devastation come from the victory itself? George Case 19 Nov 2022 · 9 min read
Disease and Deception The rise of Munchausen by Internet syndrome is inseparable from the spread of online subcultures that valorize disability. Lucy Kross Wallace 20 Oct 2022 · 12 min read
Spinning the Tavistock Story Activists are twisting the closure of Tavistock as a win for gender ideology. Bernard Lane 23 Sep 2022 · 13 min read
Fate, Faith, and Suffering Coping is not enough. We must strive to live. Samuel Kronen 5 Sep 2022 · 27 min read
Benevolent Cruelty America’s homeless problem is the product of good intentions and apathy. A new approach is needed. Adam G. Walterbach 30 Aug 2022 · 10 min read
We Won’t Force Addicts to Change We are wasting tremendous resources on ineffective, mandatory approaches to addiction. Craig K. Svensson 23 Aug 2022 · 14 min read
Should We Consider Aging a Disease? Rethinking human “enhancement” in an era of sick-care. Raiany Romanni 28 Jul 2022 · 6 min read
Stop Feeding Your Brain Junk Food A simple way to discourage clickbait influencers from producing low-quality content is for the rest of us to stop consuming it. Gurwinder Bhogal 26 Jul 2022 · 9 min read
The New Prohibition The neuroscientific model of addiction is at odds with our freedom to experience the sensual life. Ronald W. Dworkin 25 Jul 2022 · 10 min read
Warp Speed: Inside the Operation that Beat COVID—A Review While the overall U.S. response to the pandemic was tragically deficient, we can learn a lot from the public-private partnership that sped vaccine development. Josh Morrison 28 Jun 2022 · 7 min read
Shanghai on the Edge of Madness Starvation will push and pull human psychology in unusual directions—it is one of the few things that can overcome fear of the authorities. When famine came to China 400 years ago, it made Chinese peasants receptive to the preachers of class war. When the government failed to provide crucial Aaron Sarin 18 Apr 2022 · 6 min read